Minimal cover groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2024.06.038MaRDI QIDQ6612140zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Peter J. Cameron, David A. Craven, H. R. Dorbidi, Scott Harper, Benjamin Sambale

Publication date 30 September 2024

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2024.06.038

zbMATH Keywords

abelian groupsCauchy's theoremCayley's theoremsimple groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60)

Review text

Let \(\mathcal F\) be a set of finite groups. A finite group \(G\) is called an \(\mathcal F\)-cover if every group in \(\mathcal F\) is isomorphic to a subgroup of \(G\). An \(\mathcal F\)-cover is called minimal if no proper subgroup of \(G\) is an \(\mathcal F\)-cover, and minimum if its order is smallest among all \(\mathcal F\)-covers. When \(\mathcal F\) consists of all the groups of order \(n\), then the authors refer to an \(\mathcal F\)-cover as an \(n\)-cover. The paper contains several results about minimal and minimum \(\mathcal F\)-covers. Every minimal cover of a set of \(p\)-groups is a \(p\)-group (and it is interesting to notice that there are only finitely many minimal \(p^2\)-covers, but infinitely many minimal 8-covers); every minimal cover of a set of perfect groups is perfect; and a minimum cover of a set of two nonabelian simple groups is either their direct product or simple. If \(q<r\) are primes, the set \(\{\mathbb Z_q, \mathbb Z_r\}\) has only finitely many minimal covers if and only if \(q = 2\) and \(r\) is a Fermat prime. A positive natural number \(n\) is said to be a Cauchy number if there are only finitely many groups which are minimal with respect to having order divisible by \(n\). The authors prove that \(n\) is a Cauchy number if and only if one of the following holds: \(n\) is a prime power; \(n = 6\); \(n = 2p^a\), where \(p > 3\) is a Fermat prime and \(a \geq 1\).

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